The viaLibri Virtual Showcase: Day 2
54 Exhibitors - Over 1200 Selected Items
Rare Books, Ephemera, Prints, Manuscripts,
Maps, Photographs and Original Art.
Maps, Photographs and Original Art.
Our long-awaited Virtual Rare Book Showcase is underway. Bibliophiles from around the world are already taking part. You can also join them no matter where on the planet you may happen to be. There are no tickets or admission fees. There are no insiders and no one can stand ahead of you while waiting in a rainy queue. Crowded stands cannot obstruct you while you sit at your desk or in your arm chair with your favourite beverage close at hand.
When you participate in a viaLibri virtual showcase you will discover several new and useful book hunting tools that you have not encountered before. For example:
- Browse all available items together in a single list.
- Mark all your favourite sellers and browse them together as a single sorted list.
- If you search one day and come back on another the showcase will remember your favourites and let you search for them again.
- Searchable category stems.
- Flexible, unlimited photos.
- Pick from almost 2,000 categories to match your unique interests.
- Our Libribot will search the Showcase for your permanent wants.
- Book descriptions can be easily translated between 33 languages.
- Integrated price conversion across 13 currencies.
Highlights from the Showcase…
PARIS: Masson et Compagnie, 1913. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the half-title page by Dr. JACQUES LIOUVILLE to the famous Biologist and Mathematician D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON.
Sixteen engraved cards (92 x 124 mm), preserved in the original decorated moiree silk box, upper cover with elaborate illustration and gilt applique border, box a little dampstained and with some wear to extremities, cards printed within decorative border.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1963. First Edition. First printing (trade issue). Inscribed on the title page: "For Sol [Libsohn]," signed, dated February 1964.
Partly first edition. An important edition, the first complete (Damascène Morgand), of which Brunet points out that it is ‘very difficult to find well-preserved copies’.
This is a PC copy of the numbered issue, limited to 250 numbered books and a small group of PC (publisher's) copies. This copy is signed on the colophon by William Friedkin, who wrote the introduction to this book and directed the horror film adaptation; Marc Potts, the illustrator; and the book's designer, Michael Russem. This PC copy was given by Paul Suntup to Russem as an acknowledgement of his work.
American manuscript for the first Spanish technical steam engine treatise, with technical drawings.
This early libretto of Mozart's Magic Flute was prepared for 1794 performances in Frankfurt and Leipzig.